Keith Hough was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played 120 games for Claremont

Claremont Football Club

The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League . Its official colours are navy blue and gold....

 in the WANFL

West Australian Football League

The West Australian Football League is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFL is the second-most popular in the state, behind the nation-wide Australian Football League...

 during the late 1920s and 1930s.

A half back flanker from Bunbury, Hough made his league debut in the 1928 season with Claremont, who at the time were called Claremont-Cottesloe. He won the first of his two 'Fairest and best' awards that year and took out the other in 1932, the same season he became Claremont's inaugural Sandover Medal

Sandover Medal

The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League...

ist with what was then a record number of votes. Hough had come close to winning the Sandover two years earlier when he finished second to Ted Flemming

Ted Flemming

Ted Flemming was an Australian rules footballer who played 248 games for West Perth in the WAFL/WANFL from 1922 to 1937. He is a half back flanker in West Perth's official 'Team of the Century'....

.

Although he played in Claremont's losing Grand Final team of 1936, the club struggled in the period he was there.

Hough represented Western Australian at interstate football on eight occasions.